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Old 03-31-11, 06:53 PM
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I've notice since my install of the injen intake I am receiving lowers mpg . Any else notice this? I'm not drive hard I'm driving normal. No reving or passig 2500 rpm
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Your MPG is 90% of your driving habit not the intake. Like stop and go traffic, highway vs city. So if you fill your tank and do alot of highway driving your getting higher mpg vs filling up and doing alot of city driving. also your mpg changes from daily basic weather up or down 1-4mpg.
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K cause it's not the same as before when I did city vs highway driving. Seems like my gas disappears .. Oh niice to see another laos person on here
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Originally Posted by laobo979
Your MPG is 90% of your driving habit not the intake. Like stop and go traffic, highway vs city. So if you fill your tank and do alot of highway driving your getting higher mpg vs filling up and doing alot of city driving. also your mpg changes from daily basic weather up or down 1-4mpg.
totally agreed, i was consistently getting 360-370 miles on a tank before the light comes on, last week i did a lot of stop and go traffic and i was only able to get 330 miles when the light went on. big difference.
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Yeah I had my display on how much miles i got left. I noticed it drop pretty quick when i got home since I filled it. And I only live 3 miles away from gas station
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Properly installed your intake has nothing to do with your gas mileage.

Literally nothing.

Read up on how a closed-loop feedback system works on a car for more information.
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i think its cause you reset the ecu and then you start with no previous data. idk, it happened to me, but it gets back up after a while
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^this..........
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